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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE MILLER, OF PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND.

MANUFACTURING LEATHER BANDING FOR MACHINERY.

specification of Letters Patent No.l

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE MILLER, of Providence, in the county of Providence and State of Rhode Island, have invented and Improved Manufacture of Round Banding for Machinery; and I do hereby declare that the same is fully described and represented in the following specification and the accompanying drawings, letters, figures, and references thereof.

Of the said drawings, Figure 1, denotes a transverse section of a piece of leather or other suitable material, in the form in which it is to be made previous to its being converted into a round band of my im proved kind. Fig. 2, exhibits a transverse section of' such a band and indicates the manner in which the strip is rolled up and cemented together.

By inspection of Fig. 1, it will be seen that the strip in its transverse section is reduced to a parallelogram a, t, c, d, the opposite angles, a', and, c, of which are very acute angles, the strip at such angles being so reduced as to enable it to be rolled up into the form exhibited in Fig. 2, and so as to be solid or nearly so when brought into this form and having its overlapping parts cemented to those underlying them.

In making the belt it is rolled from one 11,902, dated November 7, 1854.

edge or angle, a, or, 0, toward the other or opposite edge; and as the strip in transverse section is wedge shaped in opposite directions it will clearly be seen that it can be brought into the round form and be nearly if not entirely solid when finished. In a band made according to this method the strain, that is produced upon it when it is in use, acts always at right angles to the direction in which the material is rolled or folded together, consequently there is little or no tendency of such strain to destroy the adhesion of the cemented surfaces.

What I claim as my invention is- My improved manufacture of round bandingas made substantially as described; that is to say, by reducing a strip of leather or other suitable material to the shape denoted in Fig. 1, and subsequently rolling and cementing it together into that essentially as exhibited in Fig. 2, of the drawings hereinbefore mentioned.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my signature this fourteenth day of September A. D. 1854.-.

GEORGE MILLER.

Witnesses:

THOMAS S. BATTEY, ROBERT KNiGrrr. 

